Deterrence works because one is able credibly to threaten the center ofgravity of the enemy: the threat of inflicting unacceptable losses upon him,whether in a bar brawl or in nuclear escalation. The calculus deterrencerelies upon is: is it worth it? Is the Price/Earning Ratio of thecontemplated action so hugely negative that it would wipe out the capital?Deterrence works if the price to be paid by the party to be deterred hugelyexceeds his expected earnings. But deterrence only works if the enemy isable and willing to enter the same calculus. If the enemy plays by otherrules and calculates by other means, he will not be deterred. There wasnothing the Philistines could have done to deter Samson. If the calculus is:I exchange my worthless earthly life against the triumph of Allah on earth,and an eternity of bliss for me, if the enemy wishes to be dead, if to himthe Apocalypse is desirable, he will not be deterred.

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the Mayor of Tehran, he insistently proposedthat the main thoroughfares of Tehran should be widened so that, heexplained, on the day of his reappearance, the Hidden Imam, Mohamed ibnHassan, who went into the great occultation in 941 AD could tread spaciousavenues. More recently, he told the Indian Foreign Minister that “in twoyears, everything will be settled,” which the visiting dignitary at firstmistook to mean that Iran expected to possess nuclear weapons in two years;he was later bemused to learn what Ahmadinejad had meant, to wit, that theMahdi would appear in two years, at which points all worldly problems woulddisappear. This attitude, truly, is not new, nor should it surprise us:religious notions and their estranged cousins, ideological representations,determine not only their believers’ beliefs but also their believers’actions. Reality, as it were, is invaded by belief, and belief in turnshapes the believer’s reality. The difference between the religious and theideologically religious is this: the religious believer accepts that realityis a given, whereas the fanatic gambles everything on a pseudo-reality ofwhat ought to be. The religious believer accepts reality and works atimproving it, the fanatic rejects reality, refuses to pass any compromisewith it and tries to destroy it and replace it with his fantasy.

As Pat Moynihan memorably told an opponent, “you are entitled to youropinions, but you are not entitled to your facts.” Ahmadjinedi inhabits hisbeliefs rather than the common earth. With him we do not share the samefacts, even though we share a planet. The sharing takes the form of bombsand bullets.

Ahmadjinedi wants to hasten the reappearance of the Hidden Imam, whosecoming, in traditional Muslim, and especially Shiite, apocalyptics, will bethe Sign of the Hour, that the End of Days is nigh. Ahmadinejad’s politicscannot be labelled ‘radical,’ as opposed to ‘moderate.’ His politics areapocalyptic and eschatological. Its vanishing point is not earthly butotherworldly. Famously Ayatollah Khomeini said: “We have not made arevolution to lower the price of melon.” The task of the Mahdi, when hereappears, will be to lead the great and final war which will bring aboutthe extermination of the Unbelievers, the end of Unbelief and the completedominion of God’s writ upon the whole of mankind. The Umma will inflate toabsorb the rest of the world.

The politics carried out by the complex in power in Tehran – Ahmadinejad,the Pasdaran, the Basiji, the ministry of Intelligence, Supreme GuideKhamenei – is apocalyptic and millenarian – but it also is autistic: in theworld, nothing that contravenes their perverted sense of what is and whatought to be, may be allowed to exist; conversely, anything in the world thatcontradicts their representations must be eradicated: the only thingsallowed to exist are their representations. In their revolt against theOrder of the world, they are determined to impose upon that world an Orderthat incompatible with most institutions and people. They are disposed todestroy a world that refuses their dawa, as it stubbornly clings to its ownways, in order to make way for their fanciful views. Contemporary jihad isnot a matter of politics at all (of ‘occupation, of ‘grievances,’ ofcolonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism and Zionism), but a matter ofGnostic faith. Consequently, attempts at dealing with the problempolitically will not even touch it. Aspirin is good, and so is penicillin,but they are of little avail to counter maladies of the mind. I amemphatically not saying here that the jihadis are “crazy.” I am saying thatthey are possessed of a disease of the mind, and the disease is thepolitical religion of modern Gnosticism in its Islamic version.

Let us flash back in time, if you will, to Sept. 28, 1971, in Cairo. Theprime minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tell, who had been threatened by thePalestinian movement in retaliation for the so-called Black September of1970, walks into the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel. “Five shots, fired atpoint-blank range, hit [him]. He staggered. he fell dying among the shardsof glass on the marble floor. As he lay dying, one of his killers bent overand lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.” The multiplicity ofsimilar incidents tells us that they are neither some ‘collateral damage’nor incidental occurrences. They do not belong in the sphere of traditionalpolitics, they are instead located in an ‘elsewhere’ of geopolitics.

Soldiers kill. Terrorists kill. Modern Jihadis lap the blood. Inseparablefrom contemporary Arab-Muslim jihad are the idealization of blood, theveneration of savagery, the cult of killing, the worship of death. Gruesomemurder, gory and gleeful infliction of pain, are lionized and proffered asmodels and exemplary actions pleasing to Allah. These are no merelyreflections of a pre-modern attitude toward death. I have collected, as cananybody, dozens of examples of human sacrifice inflicted by the Islamicjihadi of all stripes. This pornography of crime is endless, from thegratuitous killing of a Leon Klinghoffer to Mohammad Atta’s instructions,“You must make your knife sharp and you must not discomfort your animalduring the slaughter,” and the Behesht Zahra, the ‘Paradise of Flowers’graveyard near Tehran with its Fountain of Blood, or this report on thekilling of an Algerian intellectual: “Dr. Hammed Boukhobza who was killed bya group of Islamist terrorists in the city of Telemly. (.) He was not justkilled in his apartment, but his wife and children who wanted to escape wereforced to watch how he was literally cut to pieces, his entrails slowlydrawn out while he was just barely alive. The terrorists obviously liked towatch the suffering, and they wanted to family to share their enjoyment.”

The accumulation of such deeds shows that they are not an epiphenomenon butare central to the purpose of the jihadi. They are aired 24/7 on TV channelssuch as al Jazeera and many others. They are avidly watched and celebrated,private and family screenings are arranged. Think of images and videofilmsof assassinations, Daniel Pearl, Paul Johnson, ‘live’ killing for theviewing public. Perhaps the worst symbol of it all was the picture taken onOct. 12, 2000 in Ramallah: a young man shows his red hands dipped in theblood of two murdered Israeli soldiers to an exultant Palestinian crowd.There is a public demand to meet the supply: snuff movies are served asidentity markers. They bespeak the triumph of a theology of death, a‘manufacture of death’ as the Baathist ideologues used to say (the purporteddivision between supposedly ‘secular’ Arab or pan- Arab nationalists andreligious types is meaningless when the matter is life and death, as it is),and an ‘industry of death,’ as leading Saudi ulama proudly say. Listen tothe hypnotic threnody of the Muslim Brotherhood’s chanted motto: Allahghayatuna/Al Rasul zaimuna/Al Quran dusturuna/Al Jihad sabiluna/Al mawt fisabil Allah asma amanina/Allah akbar. These are words to be taken seriously,even literally, as events have shown. Hassan al-Banna repeatedly praised toheaven his Brotherhood’s “art of death” (fann al-mawt). This isthanatolatry, martyropathology or nihilism: when an entire society orientsitself in this direction, that society is becoming suicidal. A society thatgears especially its young toward killing and actively seeking death, it ismaking choices that bring about its extinction. “We love death more than youlove life.”

If you depreciate and deprecate life and conversely focus all your desiresupon death, the devoutly-wished passage into the glorious afterlife by meansof shahada, ‘trading’ (as Quran says) one’s own earthly life for one’safterlife is much easier, and taking the life of others is a mandate, it isan obligation, an offering. Suicide-killing as practiced so much againstIsrael, India and more recently the United States, is caused by thiscollective pathology of the mind, the Gnostic religious ideology. There aresecondary, contributing causes, but they are just that, auxiliaries to theideology.

The believers – here, the jihadis – are the Elect: they, and only they, knowGod’s plan for the world; they have been chosen by Him to fight and win thefinal, cosmic battle between God and Satan, and bring about perfection onearth, in this case, the extension of God’s writ and dominion, the daral-Islam, to mankind as a whole. Everybody else is wrong and evil, jahili,and an enemy who can and should be killed at will. Reality, Creation, thatis, is irretrievably perverted. The Perfect are “an elite of amoralsupermen” (Norman Cohn), who know what reality ‘really’ ought to be. Theyare engaged in transforming the world so that it conforms to the ‘secondreality’ that they alone know, thank to their special knowledge, gn�sis. Inorder to get from A to B, from the evil today to the perfect tomorrow,torrents of blood have to be shed in exterminatory struggle, the blood ofall those whose actions or whose very being hinder the accomplishment of theMahdi’s mission. Owing to their extraordinary status, the Perfects are aboveall laws and norms. Everything they do is willed and sanctioned by God.Their intent (niyyah) vouches for their acts. They alone are able todetermine life and death. The power this ideology confers upon its believersis intoxicating. They love death more than we love life.

For five hundred years, from 1100 to 1600, Europe was wracked by Gnosticinsurrections, from the Flanders to Northern Italy, from Bohemia to France:Pastoureaux, Taborites, Flagellants, Free Spirits, Anabaptists, etc. Thebelief-structure just described was theirs. They mobilized hundreds ofthousands of people, threatened kingdoms and overthrew dukedoms, theyslaughtered Jews, priests and rich people, they created their own,grotesque, bloody, totalitarian ‘republics.’

“Soon we shall drink blood for wine,” one of the leading insurgent writersstated, “those who do not accept baptism. are to be killed, then they willbe baptized in their blood.” And another one: “Accursed be the man whowithholds his sword from shedding the blood of the enemies of Christ. Everybeliever must wash his hands in that blood. every priest may lawfullypursue, wound and kill sinners.” And “the Just. will not rejoice, seeingvengeance and washing their hands with the blood of sinners.” Hear ThomasM�ntzer: “curse the unbelievers. don’t let them live any longer, theevil-doers who turn away from God. For a godless man has no right to live ifhe hinders the godly. The sword is necessary to exterminate them. if theyresist let them be slaughtered without mercy. the ungodly have no right tolive, save what the Elect choose to allow them. Now, go at them. it is time.The scoundrels are as dispirited as dogs.Take no notice of the lamentationsof the godless! They will beg you. don’t be moved by pity. At them! At them!While the fire is hot! Don’t let your sword get cold! Don’t let it go lame!”

By and large, the same screeds are heard from a variety of Islamic radicals.. “Die before you die!” Ali Shariati tells the Shiite believer. “He whotakes up a gun, a kitchen knife or even a pebble with which to arm and killthe enemies of the faith has his place assured in Heaven. An Islamic stateis the sum total of such individual believers. An Islamic state is in astate of war until the whole world sees and accepts the light of the TrueFaith,” said Ayatollah Fazlallah Mahalati, organizer of Iranianassassination squads. “To allow the infidels to stay alive means to let themdo more corrupting. To kill them is a surgical operation commanded by Allah.we have to kill. war is a blessing for the world and for every nation, It isAllah himself who commands men to wage war and kill. It is war that purifiesthe earth,” said Ruhollah Khomeiny. And article 15 of the Hamas charter,explains: “I indeed wish to go to war for the sake of Allah! I will assaultand kill, assault and kill, assault and kill!” As I said, a soldier kills, ajihadi loves to kill. And what was the dismal arithmetic conveyed by somejihadi that since the Americans had purportedly killed a lot of Muslims, theMuslims were “entitled” to kill 4 million Americans, children included?Torah recounts the end of human sacrifice: it forcefully states that God’sLaw is THOU SHALT NOT MURDER that was adopted by Christians. Today’s jihadis a giant regression to pre-Abrahamic times, to Moloch and Baal.

In modern times in the West, as Eric Voegelin and Norman Cohn have shown,the ideology morphed and took on secular forms – Nazis and Bolsheviks inparticular. Islam, was heavily burdened by Gnostic contents, andhistorically shaped by a tribal matrix that inherently fosters Manicheantendencies (“them”-vs.-“us”). The jump from mere religion to religiousideology was easy. It was achieved in the 19th century by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani. It was followed by Abu Ala Mawdoodi, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb,Ali Shariati, Ruhollah Khomeiny, Osama bin Laden. Hamas, Hezbollah, theDeobandi of South Asia, the Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyya, the Talibans, theWahhabi, share this outlook.

Knowing this, how do we deter the modern Gnostic warriors, the jihadi?

Mainly, we do not. Those who are dead already, who consider themselves deadto the world and only alive to the Afterworld, those who wish to die,generally cannot be deterred. Faith has been described as a belief in thingsinvisible. Gnosticism is belief in a fantasy that is taken to be more realthan the common reality: they do not believe what they see, they see whatthey believe. This cannot be deterred. Imagine Osama bin Laden is in frontof you: how do you deter him? Or Zawahiri, or Zarqawi ? Deterrence? Don’teven think about it. Deterrence might have worked way before contemporaryjihad was able to reach critical mass, sometimes perhaps in the early tomid-1990s.

If our enemy was merely ‘terrorism,’ we could defang it, admittedly at greatcost: by destroying the Saudi-Wahhabi nexus and their grip on power, bywiping out the Iranian Ayatollahs’ strength, and by squeezing hard thenoxious Pakistani military-intelligence establishment – all in all, thelinchpins of Muslim terrorism. Once this infrastructure of terror collapsed,much of terror would. But terror itself is nothing but the principalparamilitary instrument of jihad: the operative concept is jihad, notterror. The jihadis’ purpose (in Clausewitzian terms, Zweck), in the verywords of the Quran, is to strike terror in the hearts of unbelievers, it isa quasi-military objective: once terrorized, the Unbelievers, theschismatics and the polytheists will convert, submit or die. The strategicaim (Ziel) of jihad is the Gnostic takeover of the world. To some extent, wemay be able to lessen, hinder or hamper the Zweck. But the Ziel isunconditional and cannot be altered. Can we de-fang jihad by pulling itsterrorist teeth?

Some workarounds work. The way in which Israeli military and security forceshave ruthlessly sapped the strength of Islamic terror, notably by ahigh-tempo attrition of its leadership cadre, is exemplary and should bestudied and emulated elsewhere, different conditions obtaining.

Contemporary jihad, like its emanation, terrorism, is an integral chain: aslong as it is islamico-glamorous to be a cleric who issues fatwas callingfor the murder of Israeli civilians or American GIs, the cleric will go on.Once dead, he will stop. So will the chairman of a charity that funnelsmoney to jihad. So will the senior intelligence officer who trains orsmuggles them, the predicator who incites, the madrasa or universityprofessor who brainwashes, the prince who lies for terror, the ayatollah whosends out teams of killers, etc. This is deterrence after the Frenchexpression the have been shot pour encourager les autres. Jihad is theoperative ideology of a number of states; states can be pinned down and hit.This approach is a variant of the notion of decapitation, or of theformulation of nodal targeting given by air power theorist Col. John Warden.Less than the jihadi hardware, it is the jihadi software that has to behit – but not by soft power.

What did Europe do to crush the insurrectionary Gnostics in the Medieval andlate- Medieval era? Churchill once said: “If Hitler invaded hell I wouldmake at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”Likewise I’ll have a kind word for the Inquisition (not the Spanish one,though), which did quite a job cleaning up the mess. They rounded them upand they killed them. Thomas M�ntzer was defeated, captured and beheaded in1525. The ‘King’ of the Anabaptists of M�nster, John von Leyden and hisaides, were executed in 1535. As a terrible warning, their bodies weresuspended in iron cages from the tower of St. Lambert’s church in the town.Those who survived hit in wait for better days. What they had found is thattheir insurgency was hopeless, that it was useless, and that sticking one’sneck out was a sure way to lose it. Their will had been broken. Enough of atrauma had been inflicted to do so.

One martyr will have followers, ten martyrs will be admired and emulated.One thousand dead martyrs who died unheralded die in vain. If Ahmadinejadand others die in vain and uselessly they will not die as martyrs but asslobs. For the Gnostic, for the jihadi, his death is the only thing thatmatters to him: take that away and nothing is left. It does not mean, as thejurors of the Moussaoui trial were apparently led to believe, that “youcannot make a martyr out of him, since this is what he wants.” Make hisdeath a lonely, useless, ignored death. Unextraordinary, unromantic, trivialdeaths shatter the glory of the jihadi’s death. It was George Patton whosaid: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it bymaking the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” The recipe is notpretty nor is it easy.

The defeated European Gnostics went underground, their sole hope resided inthe clandestine conveying of their beliefs, especially to their children.Society cannot eliminate the Gnostic beliefs, but can make the straindormant instead of virulent. Jihad is integral to Islam and derives from itsmost fundamental tenets. The severing of that link is not going to happensoon. But throughout history, when Islamic conquerors met their match, theystopped. When they met crushing defeat, they retreated, and found the ulamaand the faqih to justify that, like prophets who announced the Rapture foryesterday, 8:09 am, and reschedule it for next year. But let us rememberthat most of the faithful are not turned off by the ludicrous failure oftheir prophet’s prophecies, precisely because they live in the ‘secondreality.’

Once their leaders had been exterminated, the Medieval insurgents of Europedisbanded and scattered. Applying high-tempo attrition and nodal targetingto the jihadi apparatus worldwide (by which I emphatically do not mean‘terrorists’ alone or even in the first place) seems to me to be a modernequivalent. If I may say in homage to the chain of command that orchestratedhis elimination, Sheikh Yasin was not in the habit of wielding pistols – hewielded death. It is those who deploy the undead who must be the prioritytargets.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided on Tuesday to appointa security officer who had been accused by Israel of involvement interrorist attacks as overall commander of his Force 17 “presidential guard”in the West Bank.

The decision to appoint Col. Mahmoud Damra, also known as Abu Awad, comesonly days after Israel agreed to provide weapons and ammunition to Force 17following increased threats on Abbas’s life.

PA officials told The Jerusalem Post that Abbas approved the appointment ofDamra in a presidential decree issued just before he left Ramallah forTunis. They confirmed that Damra was on Israel’s list of wanted terrorists,but claimed that the charges were “baseless.”

“Damra is a senior Palestinian officer who was very close to the late YasserArafat,” said one official. “He did have a role in the revolution and in thestruggle against Israel, like most Palestinians. But today he is committedto the peace process and he supports President Abbas.”

Damra was one of several fugitives who sought shelter in Arafat’s Mukatacompound in Ramallah in 2002 after Israel accused him of mastermindingterrorist attacks. Damra was then commander of the Ramallah branch of Force17 and was in charge of protecting Arafat and his top aides.

Israeli security officials said then that, since the beginning of theintifada in September 2000, Damra had led a terrorist cell in the Ramallaharea that carried out deadly attacks, including shooting at vehicles,attacking communities and IDF positions and planting bombs.

In March 2004, The Daily Telegraph quoted Israeli defense officials assaying that Damra was “a commander of terrorist actions, even suicideactions.”

Damra’s deputy, Abu Fadih, was killed during a gun battle with soldiers inthe center of Ramallah in March 2002. The IDF said then that Abu Fadihheaded a Fatah cell responsible for the deaths of at least 15 Israelis.

The gunmen commanded by Damra included members of Force 17 and Abbas’s Fatahparty. According to the officials, Damra personally issued orders to them tocarry out attacks and was in charge of supplying them with weapons andmoney.A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office in 2001 announced thearrest of three members of Force 17 who were allegedly involved in thekilling of Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane and his wife Talia in December 2000.

According to the statement, Damra was responsible for arming and instructingthe three men, who were identified as Talal Ghassan, 37, a senior Force 17member in Ramallah, Marzouk Abu Naim, 43, and Na’man Nofel.

The three were planning on carrying out additional attacks on soldiers andcivilians, especially on the Ramallah-area bypass roads, on the Allon roadand in Jerusalem, the statement said.

Abu Naim led his interrogators to two bombs which the cell had been planningto use.

Israeli security officials also attribute to Damra’s men a shooting attacknear Neveh Tzuf in November 2000 in which two soldiers and a civilian werekilled, a shooting attack at the Tapuah junction in November 2001 in whichone civilian was killed, and a shooting attack on Route 443 near Givat Ze’evin December 2001 in which a civilian was killed.

+++AL-AHRAM WEEKLY 25-31 May ’06:”Davos to downtown”By Salama A SalamaQUOTES FROM TEXT:“thousands of security men chasing a few hundred young protesters”“youths… arrested in hundreds downtown and on university campuses”“No economic stability is possible in the absence of political reform”——————————————————————————————————————————————————EXCERPTS:A few days ago, the president of a major European country stopped over inCairo …the delegation accompanying the guest included four students, boysand girls, under the age of 20. … top high school students and the tripwas a reward for their academic accomplishment.I thought of this as I contemplated the divisive scene in this country.Egypt has split into two halves. One half concentrates on a block ofdowntown Cairo, with thousands of security men chasing a few hundred youngprotesters. The protesters were out to support the judges in their bid forjudicial independence. The second half is in Sharm El-Sheikh, relaxing undertight security for fear of terror, rubbing shoulders with world leaders andbusinessmen, and busy discussing the Davos slogan — “The Promise of a NewGeneration”.What generation are we talking about? Are we talking about the youths whohave been arrested in hundreds downtown and on university campuses? Or arewe talking about the youths …talked about in Sharm El-Sheikh? Is thereanything in common between the two? How would one expect the downtownyouths, the young people who we’ve inundated with empty promises for years,to feel affinity to the virtual world portrayed in Sharm El-Sheikh?In Sharm El-Sheikh, participants in the World Economic Forum painted abright picture of economic security and jobs, of investment and reform.Experts called for more inter-trade among Arab countries. Economists urgedthe creation of 100 million new jobs by 2020. How could our young peoplerelate to that? How could they believe us when they see the region teeteringon the verge of a catastrophe? Forget about Iraq and Palestine. Forget aboutthe turmoil in Gaza and the Syrian-Lebanese crisis. Forget about Sudan andthe imminent international intervention there. Our youths are worried about… their day-to-day clash with society, with our own political, educationaland police institutions. . . .We have made no real effort to train ouryoung for decent jobs. When Italy provided us with 3,000 jobs, just to stopthe lethal sea voyages in which hundreds of our young died already, alas,only 35 youths had the qualifications to fill these jobs, according to theItalian ambassador.…. There is a deep gulf between the ethos of Davos and the reality ofCentral Security deployment in central Cairo. That gulf will remainunbridgeable so long as the National Democratic Party insists that securitymeasures are the only way to go.You cannot suppress political and civil freedoms and expect to win. Youcannot deny the judiciary its independence and expect to win. This isnonsense. No economic stability is possible in the absence of politicalreform.

Sue Lerner – Associate – IMRA

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From: imra@netvision.net.ilTo: imra@imra.org.ilSubject: France: Deplore Israeli incursion in Gaza Strip“not going to get involved in a discussion on what motivated it”

We deplore the Israeli incursion into Gaza, a territory under the control ofthe Palestinian Authority. We call on the Palestinian Authority to take allnecessary measures to stop the firing of rockets into Israeli territory. Wecall upon the two parties to put a halt to all violence and to restore calmand restraint.

Q – Israel invoked the right to intervene preventively. What is France’sinterpretation of this justification to intervene in Gaza with suchviolence?

We note first of all that this Israeli incursion was the first landoperation since Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza last year. As we say in thestatement I’ve just made, Gaza is a territory under the control of thePalestinian Authority. We therefore deplore this Israeli operation. I’m notgoing to get involved in a discussion on what motivated it. What’s importantis for the Palestinian Authority to take all measures to avoid the firing ofrockets from Gaza into Israeli territories and for both sides to showrestraint.

Q – An Israeli minister announced that he was asking three Hamas deputiesand one minister, the minister of Jerusalem, to resign from Parliament andfrom the government under the threat of expulsion and a ban on their livingin Jerusalem. Do you have any reaction?

We saw that announcement and are waiting to see what happens. On the Frenchside, we are very attached to the compliance with texts governing the statusof Jerusalem and are equally concerned with the protection of the civilrights of Arab residents of Jerusalem. We remain opposed to any measure thatprejudges the final status of the city, which should result fromnegotiations between the parties. [.]

Q – Has anything been decided in Brussels about aid to the Palestinians?

The Council will meet in June. It was decided last time that the Commissionwould make proposals. It is working on them in conjunction with other bodiesor organizations, notably the World Bank, since one of the ideas is that thefiduciary fund would be run by the World Bank. We are waiting for theCommission’s proposals. Technical meetings have taken place. We hope allthis moves rather quickly because it is urgent to establish this mechanism.

Q – In other words, thus far all European aid remains blocked?

Not everything is blocked; Many things were in fact already under way justbefore the suspension. We mustn’t have too dark a vision of things. A lot ofthe aid was already en route. What’s being suspended for now is a hundredmillion euros. Once again, we shouldn’t assume that no aid will be disbursedin 2006; that would be wrong.

Q – In spite of that, there’s been talk about this fund, and about asolution, for weeks now. We can deploy emergency means for Indonesia, whichof course are well deserved, but for a situation like Gaza, there’s no wayto deploy emergency means while we await the Commission’s decision one wayor another?

We are well aware of the urgency of the situation. Most recently, there wasa World Bank report in early May that described the situation and showed howthings were indeed very troubling in different areas, including health andeducation, and we are convinced of the need to do something. Once again, theEU had already disbursed a certain number of credits before the suspension.Humanitarian aid isn’t affected by this suspension. Moreover, we arepressuring the various parties to consider these humanitarian aspects. Whenthe foreign minister went to Israel, for example, he pleaded with theIsraeli government to disburse frozen funds. You saw that the Israelisdecided to unfreeze part of those funds. But we agree on the fact that it isurgent to put this mechanism into effect. It was France that proposed it.But the EU must make more specific proposals now, and it must be donequickly.

Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small ArmsExtra-Judicial Executions of Suspected Collaborators with Israeli SecurityServices

Field Update31 May 2006

2 Citizens Killed by Gunmen in Nablus

Yesterday evening, Jefal Mahmoud Ayesh (25) and Wedad Ghazi Abu Mustafa(28), from Balata refugee camp near Nablus, were extra-judicially executedin two separate crimes perpetrated by armed Palestinian groups. Theperpetrators claimed that the victims had been informants for the Israelisecurity services.

PCHR’s preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 15:30 onTuesday, 30 May 2006, a number of gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,the armed wing of Fatah, shot Jefal Ayesh near the northwestern entrance ofBalata refugee camp. Ayesh was hit with several bullets to the head, chestand limbs, killing him instantly. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades declaredresponsibility for the crime, claiming that the victim had beencollaborating with the Israeli security services.

And at approximately 16:40 on the same day, an armed group apprehended WedadAbu Mustafa from her house in Balata refugee camp. The gunmen took her toRafedia Hospital in Nablus. When they reached the hospital’s courtyard, thegunmen fired at her. She was killed instantly by bullets to the head, chestand limbs. The victim was the widow of a citizen who had been recentlykilled by Israeli Occupation Forces.

Since the beginning of 2006, six Palestinians have been executedextra-judicially by armed Palestinian groups, under accusations ofcollaborating with Israeli security services.

PCHR is worried about the continuation of extra-judicial executions carriedout by armed Palestinian groups, against persons accused of collaborationwith the Israeli security services. The Centre stresses the following:– These crimes are a form of extra-judicial execution and are,therefore, a serious violation of human rights;– The legal pursuit of informants or those suspected ofcollaborating with Israel is the duty of the Palestinian National Authority(PNA) and its designated branches. This must be done within the frameworkof the law, where suspects are ensured of all their legal rights, includingthe right to a fair trial; and

– The Centre reiterates its strong opposition to the death penalty underany and all circumstances, as it is a serious violation of human rights,especially the right to life and the right to freedom from torture and crueland inhumane treatment.

From: imra@netvision.net.ilTo: imra@imra.org.ilSubject: Judicial victory for the Jewish Community of Hebron

Judicial victory for the Jewish Community of HebronThe Jewish Community of HebronMay 31, 2006

“HaAretz” and “Yedioth Achronot” newspapers will print public apology to thecommunity and pay damages of over 10,000 NIS each. The public apology willstress that the Israeli Supreme Court did not rule that the “Beit Shapira”sales documents were counterfeit.

Following the expulsion from Beit Shapira on May 7, both HaAretz and YediothAchronot newspapers published articles stating that the Supreme Court’sdecision to allow eviction from the building was based upon their rulingthat the purchase documents were forged.

This statement was blatantly false. To the contrary, the court specificallystated that it could not intervene in the question as to the legality of thebuilding’s purchase or disputed claims of ownership and therefore orderedthat the case be adjudicated at a lower court level.

On May 8th Hebron’s Jewish community, via attorneys Prof. Michael and GiladCorinaldi, notified the two newspapers of a civil suit pending against them,for libeling the community and betraying journalistic ethics, therebycausing damage to those responsible for the building’s purchase, and itsresidents. The suit demanded both an apology and financial damages.

Following negotiations between the newspapers’ attorney and Prof. Corinaldi,the two sides reached an agreement whereby the newspapers would print aclarification and apology, stressing that the Supreme Court did not rulethat the purchase documents were false, and would express regret at theerror. HaAretz would pay the community total damages of 15,000 shekels andYedioth Achronot, 13,000 shekels.

Community leaders expressed satisfaction at the agreement.

“We have set a precedent, and this is the central point. The media cannotprint false accounts slandering residents of Judea and Samaria.”

“This ruling also proves that the struggle for Beit Shapira is not over. Theapologies issued by the newspapers will only be the first in a series ofapologies we expect to receive concerning this issue: the police, the civiladministration, and the prosecutor’s office will be added to the list ofthose requesting our forgiveness.”

“This episode is an important judicial victory, and is the first stage inour judicial fight to restore Beit Shapira to its rightful, legal owners.”

From: imra@netvision.net.ilTo: imra@imra.org.ilSubject: PM Olmert Speaks With US President George Bush

PM Olmert Speaks With US President George Bush(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this evening (Wednesday), 31.5.06, with USPresident George Bush, who telephoned him in order to update on recentdevelopments regarding the Iranian issue. The two men agreed to be in closecontact on the issue.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met today (Wednesday), 31.5.06, with a group ofIDF new immigrant soldiers from the former USSR, who had completed a Netivcourse designed to assist them as they converted to Judaism during their IDFservice. Prime Minister’s Office Conversion Director Rabbi Haim Druckman,GOC Personnel Maj.-Gen. Eliezer Stern, IDF Chief Education OfficerBrig.-Gen. Ilan Harari and Institute for the Study of Judaism Director Prof,Benny Ish-Shalom also attended the meeting.

Prime Minister Olmert welcomed everybody and said: “This meeting is verymoving and I am very pleased to be here. I hope that you are also excitedto be part of the Jewish People. I assume that you overcame many obstacles,disappointments and frustrations en route to Israel. But now you are hereand I very much hope that you are excited because we are very pleased thatyou are here with us and that you want to live here and be Jewish. We wantto accept you with love and in a spirit of partnership.

I spoke to Rabbi Druckman and told him that what he is doing is praiseworthyand that I was certain that whoever receives his signature deserves to beaccepted. It is very important that you are here and feel part of theJewish People; however, it is more important that you feel that we want youto be part of us and that we are proud of you.”

Prime Minister Olmert was asked why he thought immigration had stopped andsaid that in his opinion immigration had not stopped; however, it had shrunkfor two reasons: “The first reason is that most immigrants came during the1990’s and most of them are here with us. The second reason is that life inthe former USSR has improved, and the regimes have become more democratic.”

Prime Minister Olmert said: “There is no greater challenge than to bring allJews from everywhere to Israel. We have one home – here, this is our home,the place that gives a greater future to the Jewish People and my Governmentwill do its utmost for continued immigration and the absorption of theimmigrants.”

Tzvia Shimon to Head SELA Disengagement Authority(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today (Wednesday), 31.5.06, announced that heintends to appoint Prime Minister’s Office Senior Deputy Director-GeneralTzvia Shimon to replace Yonatan Basi, who has sought leave to resign asDirector of the SELA Disengagement Authority. She has degrees in businessadministration and management from Fairleigh Dickinson University in theUnited States. She has held senior positions at the Israeli missions inCairo, Chicago, New York and elsewhere.

The SELA Disengagement Authority will continue deal with all the issues thatit has dealt with thus far according to the Evacuation Compensation Law.

While claims by retreat proponents that Israeli withdrawals only serve tobenefit the Jewish State may serve to help them in the domestic debate,their arguments could very well seriously handicap future Palestinianleaders who might be interested in striking a workable bargain.

Any future workable deal will, by its nature, require Palestinian compromiseon such issues as the right of return of refugees to within Israel’sborders, force/weapons limits inside the Palestinian entity and airspacecontrol, just to name a few.

If the time is ever reached that Israel finds itself dealing with a seriousPalestinian leadership that delivers on its obligations, those Palestinianleaders are going to have to convince their constituents that Palestinianconcessions were matched by Israeli concessions in the give-and-take of thebargaining table.

The retreat from Gaza already took the Gaza “chips” off the table. Remarksby Olmert, Peres and others that additional retreats would be an Israeligain rather than a sacrifice do not go unnoticed by the Palestinian street.They could readily set the stage for a future stalemate as Palestiniannegotiators, interested as much in their own survival as in making a deal,find the Palestinian public unimpressed by Israeli territorial concessionseven if they are truly bare-bones Israeli red lines.

Rather than promote the chances for peace these retreat advocate arejeopardizing the chances of ever negotiating a workable deal.

Humint Events OnlineThe 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist “Pearl Harbor” event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other issues of US government responsibility.

In this interesting article, Ed Haas argues that NIST violated federal law by failing to demonstrate quality, utility, objectivity, and integrity in its analysis of why World Trade Center buildings 1, 2 and 7 collapsed.

Why did the U.S. government deem it appropriate to exclude the NIST reports from being used as evidence in lawsuits and legal actions? There is only one plausible explanation. The U.S. government knows that the NIST findings could not withstand the rigors of cross-examination. The fact that approximately 150 plaintiffs that refused the government’s 9/11 Victims Fund are still waiting for their day in court nearly five years after 9/11 validates my premise that the government is allergic to any civilian force that desires to put the government’s account of 9/11 to the test of a jury trial.

If the NIST scientists responsible for the ‘probable collapse sequence of WTC-1 and WTC-2’ had to take the stand in a civil court proceeding, it would quickly be discovered by the world that NIST failed to perform and disseminate its research regarding the collapse of the twin towers in accordance with its own Data Quality Act guidelines. Even a rookie attorney fresh out of law school would be able to quickly dissect and dismiss as irrelevant, the NIST conclusions. It is precisely what NIST did not consider in its research that makes its published conclusions suspect. NIST simply refused to consider and vigorously pursue a second working hypothesis; that the twin towers collapsed as the result of controlled demolition.”

A Pastor has come forward to blow the whistle on a nationwide FEMAprogram which is training Pastors and other religiousrepresentatives to become secret police enforcers who teach theircongregations to “obey the government” in preparation for adeclaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, andforced relocation.

This program is a nationwide initiative and a literal Soviet modelwhereby the churches are being systematically infiltrated bygovernment volunteers and used as conduits for martial law trainingand conditioning. The Pastor was told that over 13,000 counties werealready on board.

FEMA related to the Pastors that quarantines, martial law and forcedrelocation were a problem for state authorities when enforcingfederal mandates due to the “cowboy mentality” of citizens standingup for their property and second amendment rights as well as farmersdefending their crops and livestock from seizure.

It was stressed that the Pastors needed to preach subservience tothe authorities ahead of time in preparation for the round-ups andto make it clear to the congregation that “this is for their owngood.”

Pastors were asked to make a pledge or an affirmation during themeeting to fulfil the roles ascribed to them by FEMA. They weregiven assurances that they would be covered by full compensation inthe event of resisters injuring them during property seizures andround-ups.

“We get the the picture that we’re going to be standing at the endof some farmer’s lane while he’s standing there with his doublebarrel, saying we have to confiscate your cows, your chickens, yourfirearms,” said Pastor Revere.

The Pastor elaborated on how the directives were being smokescreened by an Orwellian alteration of their names.

“They’re not using the term ‘quarantine’ – this is the term they’regoing to be using – it’s called ‘social distancing’ don’t you likethat one,” said the Pastor.

He also highlighted how detention camps had been renamed to givethem a friendly warm veneer.

“Three months ago it was quarantine and relocation centers and nowit’s ‘community centers’ and these are going to be activated at thelocal schools,” he said.

Pastor Revere outlined the plan to carry out mass vaccination andenforced drugging programs in times of crisis such as a bird fluoutbreak.

“In the event of an outbreak or a bio-terrorist attack, there’d be amass vaccination….they have a program nationwide ‘Pills inPeople’s Palm In 48 Hours’,” said the Pastor who was told thatWalmart had been designated as the central outlet of this procedure.

Pastor Revere said that many attendees believed in the necessity ofthe program and were completely unaware to the motivations behindits true purpose and were offered incentives to become volunteerssuch as preferential treatment and first access for themselves andtheir families to vaccines and food shipments in times of emergency.

Which roads to close off after martial law was declared had alsoalready been mapped out.

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Pastor Butch Paugh- May 23, 2006

About three months ago, I was invited to become a part of a groupimplementing federal FEMA/Homeland Security directives in ourcounty. I couldn’t pass that up!

Lots of interesting and bothersome info being discussed at thesemeetings…

Local FEMA’s (‘across the US’ according to a spokesman at our localmeeting) are gathering Ministers (Pastors) to help in the event ofa “declaration of Martial Law or like police action following adeclared emergency or quarantine due to an act of bioterrorism”.The discussion centered around the need of ‘locals’ to “quell thecowboy mentality” of farmers who may have their stock or cropsconfiscated and subsequently destroyed.

FEMA and other Disaster Agencies (NVOAD in particular:http://www.nvoad.org) are training volunteers in a “Peer to Peer” program.That program trains people to assist FEMA in a neighborhood setting–teams reach out to neighbors in a declared emergency and “get theirneighbors to obey authorities”. According to our spokesman,Ministers will be especially helpful because “you guys and gals canuse Romans 13″.

If you have ever wanted scripture explained in plain English and inmodern day terms this site is for you. Once you’ve read a few shortpages the mystery will go away and simple logic will set in.

There’s a lot of information and many different subjects covered atthe site. I might suggest you start with pages 1, 3, 4, and 13.They’re very brief and to the point, yet convey a very common senseway of understanding prophecy.

I think you’ll see that the bible really is God’s word, and He reallyis speaking to Us today, and that it’s not just a lesson in history.Although there are some rather trying revelations, I found out howimportant it is to know these things and think you’ll like knowing aswell!! The link is:

LISTEN – REAL PLAYEROkay. It’s Memorial Day and I’ve been working all day. I want you to goto the free show link (eventually it will be in the archives, and inabout an hour at the Ipod download). I have a two hour show that willblow your mind on 9/11. This man Richard Andrew Grove, a whistleblowerwho worked for the big boys and money people behind 9/11 has come outwith information to set the 9/11 movement on fire.http://subscribe.streamguys.com/meriaheller_od_free/todaysshow.wma

A vast archive of images from the Sept. 11 attack and its aftermath,assembled by Steven Rosenbaum, a Manhattan producer of documentaries,can be sampled on the Internet at http://www.911archive.net/Google. The futureof the collection is uncertain.

By GLENN COLLINS<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/glenn_collins/index.html?inline=nyt-per&gt;Published: May 30, 2006A brown fedora rests abandoned in ground zero dust: owner’s fate,unknown. In images shot from space, a plume of smoke rises miles abovethe World Trade Center. Two workers cling to a scaffold that danglesfrom an office building beneath the inferno. A handheld video camera,pointing at a north tower in flames, shakily veers to show the secondhijacked jet striking the other tower.Skip to next paragraph

Those images, captured largely by amateurs, are moments from more than500 hours of videos and films, the largest collection of raw visual datafrom what historians say is the best-documented catastrophe in history.About 1,700 clips from the collection have attracted more than a millionhits in the three months since they were put on Google Video.The 7,000-gigabyte archive was assembled by Steven Rosenbaum, aManhattan-based documentary producer. In the days after the terroristattacks, he put up posters and fliers and placed an ad in The VillageVoice urgently requesting images that captured the attack, its aftermathand the mood of the city.Now his collection is the largest asset of his dormant televisionproduction company, CameraPlanet, and Mr. Rosenbaum is working out anagreement with the Bank of America, the company’s primary lender. Hewants to structure a deal with a donor, buyer or partner that would keepthe collection from being sold piecemeal, would repay the company’s debtof more than $500,000 and would make the videos available toresearchers, filmmakers and the public.As the fifth anniversary of the attack approaches, Mr. Rosenbaumis hardly alone among 9/11 collectors in struggling with financing, andwith the need to find a permanent home for a repository and providegreater access to it.Beyond at least 260 major private and institutional collections, anestimated 100,000 people have squirreled away 9/11 materials. They rangefrom video and document collections to flags, badges, roadside shrines,electronic archives of trade center blogs and even compilations ofconspiracy theory materials.As yet, the logical repository for ground zero materials, theplanned World Trade Center memorial and museum, has no place to storethem, and it faces a budgetary and leadership crisis as well.Beyond that, seeming to profit from 9/11 is still taboo. David N.Redden, a vice chairman of Sotheby’s in Manhattan, said his auctionhouse has not been offered Sept. 11 collections to sell.“Things from that day should be unsalable,” he said, “and anythingthat is ghoulish is beyond the pale.”Among all the archives, Mr. Rosenbaum’s video collection may be uniquein that it can be sampled by anyone with access to the Web, athttp://www.911archive.net/Google <http://www.911archive.net/Google&gt;.It is “an extraordinary compilation of perspectives, a very importantarchive to keep together,” said Jan Seidler Ramirez, chief curator ofthe World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.Mr. Rosenbaum, 42, said that two appraisers had valued his archive inexcess of $1 million.“This collection is about five years of my life,” Mr. Rosenbaumsaid. “It’s not about money. We don’t have the resources to make itavailable to researchers and other documentarians, and we are veryselective in giving approval to use our video.”Mr. Rosenbaum’s Google video clips are low-resolution teasers oflonger sequences, and some have been encoded so that they cannot bedownloaded, allowing Mr. Rosenbaum alone to approve uses of the fullhigh-resolution images.Seventy-six people contributed to the collection, which is owned by Mr.Rosenbaum and his business partner and wife, Pamela Yoder.The archive’s value is greatly enhanced, they say, by videotapedinterviews with those who provided their pictures, “because in 40 yearseveryone who shot this video will be gone, and we think thecircumstances are as important as the videos,” Ms. Yoder said.A few of the clips have been used in documentaries, including afilm produced and directed by Mr. Rosenbaum, “Seven Days in September.”In a review in 2002, A. O. Scott of The New York Times called it “analmost unbearably powerful documentary.”When another director of documentaries, Ric Burns, made a filmabout the trade center, he was also allowed to use some of Mr.Rosenbaum’s images.Archives like this, Mr. Burns said, are tremendous assets.

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Information to set the 9/11 movement on fire.

“THE MERIA HELLER SHOW”

” Listen to this two hour presentation and learn “If you don’t then do not call yourself a 9/11 investigator again.

> PRUDYL@aol.com wrote:> > In a message dated 5/23/2006 11:24:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,> > sgheen@adhddoc.com writes:> >> > Apparently, the other teacher told this> > > to the Principal of the school he was teaching at, and> > > he was put on leave, pending a hearing on Monday,> > > which may see him fired. Follow the link for the news> > > video.> >

Yes, in a faculty lunchroom, during conversation with another teacher — with now students present — the man mentioned his being convinced that 9-11 was a false-flag crime — his own opinion/suspicion about a crime — not even a political opinion (since certainly everyone is of one opinion that the government destroying the WTC towers etc in a false-flag attack would be wrong) — but this teacher did not discuss political implications or a course of action — he just said what he thought based on the evidence — again, NOT to any student, not in any way “representing the school”

> > Just like Nazi Germany. We weren’t supposed to be the kind of people> > who did that sort of thing. Well that was before the Bush> > administration came along. Of course, he’s so moral. What can I say?> > Prudy> >

Yes, like Nazi Germany in the sense that private opinions not in line withNazi doctrine were grounds for teachers dismissal from German schools.Yes, we Americans weren’t supposed to be that kind of people in the U.S— everyone was to be allowed to have his own views — his own opinionsabout crimes and corruption, about politics and to speak them freely onhis own time, e.g. during lunch away from the students). Yes, Prudy,we lost our freedom of opinion when the war on terror began — wherelooking at evidence and reaching a conclusion about a crime is now polticallydangerous and can cost you your job. And of course you are being sarcasticwhen you call Bush moral. So what indeed can you say? That is the question.

Can you say that Bush is immoral and that the evidence indicates that9-11 was an inside job — can you say this to a co-worker (teacher)during lunch break without losing your job because of your views, views notexpressed to any student, views notincorporated into your teaching material, but views just mentioned in private tothe private individual you are eating lunch with. Yes, indeed, what can yousay about this criminal administration and not lose your job for it?????

>> You are very confused; you just did “say” it.>> So where are the Nazi-“like” concentration camps, ovens and gas chambers> “Just like Nazi Germany” located exactly? in the United States?

Prudy is not talking about gas chambers (which never existed, btw), he is talking about the Nazi attack on freedom of thought, freedom to have political discussion (NOT TEACHING TO STUDENTS, BUT DISCUSSION WITH THE MAN NEXT TO YOU DURING LUNCH!!!!) The Nazis authority did punish political thought, just like in the case at the American H.S. faculty luchroom mentioned above.

How would you like it if we lived in Nazi Germany and you, Razl Dazl,happened be a teacher and happened to privately mention to another teachingduring the lunch hour that you thought gas chambers were being used at thework camp for Jews. Would it be right for you to be fired for having youown view — you own conscience and speaking to another adult while eatinglunch?>> Please be specific, so I can look and investigate the veracity of your> claim -assuming such is not exaggerated or unhinged raving?

Purdy is very specific — the firing of teachers for saying or thinking something contrary to the doctrines of regime is the kind of thing they would do in Nazi Germany.>> O? and where exactly are the Nazi-“like,” Jewish pogroms being> conducted? and the anti-Semitic, overt and covert propaganda being> disseminated from? where exactly, Nazi-“like,” are Jews being targeted,> maligned and demonised?

What are you talking about? Purdy is talking about freedom of thought, how itdoesn’t exist in a certain American H.S. just like it didn’t exist in NaziGermany. No one is talking about the holocaust myth, except you — theprofessional anonymous disinfo/disruption propaganda and cointelpro guy.

Prudy is talking about lack of freedom of a teachers own private thoughtswhen he is not teaching — his ability to express his thought to anotherresponsible educated teacher in a private coversation unrelated to school matters and how that lack of freedom resembles the lackof freedom of opinion that obtained in Nazi Germany. He is right. He understandswhat makes the Nazi the Nazi. Only the Zionist Jew would find nothing wrong with the firing of this teacher for his private opinion expressed in a private conversation to an adult during lunch — that is how Zionists think. According to razl dazl the only thing wrong with the Nazis was that they picked on Jews (although there is no evidence that there were gas chambers)

> Kids attending school are supposed to be their to be educated; not to be> indoctrinated by idiotic conspiracy-poisoned kooks posing as educators.

First I would say the same thing about Zionists controlling our students minds. Every other report in H.S. is about the holocaust. It is all kids learn about history these days. It is a radical Zionist curriculum all the way — and we now know (except in today’s Nazi Germany where it is forbidden to think, forbidden to follow where the evidence leads you) the truth of the matter is that there were no gas chambers, there was no holocaust.

This teacher is another Zundel — an innocent victim of Naziism — the Zionist brand.

This man was not telling the students that he was convinced 9-11 was aninside job — he was telling the man eating lunch next to him, not in anyeducational context. Suppose the man in a conversation said that he thoughtNixon was a good president, or that Wilkes was not a lone gunman or thatPearl Harbor was allowed to happen by Roosevelt and Churchill? Are notteachers intitled to have their own views of things — or must they beconsistently politically correct down to the last brain cell or else?

>> Children in Islamo-Fascist nations and schools are thus brain-washed> with irrational conspiracy theories, about Jews, AIDS, Science, and> evil, sinister Western Secularism and so forth, which breeds deadly and> unnecessary fear and suspicion; and in extremist cases, conspiracy> indoctrinated kids are made culturally-suspicious, and brain-washed to> kill non-conspiracy group-think infidels, in return for some fictitious> paradise; akin to some American Catholic-like, Christo-Fascists, a la> Timothy McVeigh.

And was this teacher in the U.S. doing indoctrinating his students in thatway? He was not. He said nothing about 9-11 to any of his students. Hebrought it up in conversation during lunch in the faculty lunchroom.

And who was the “fascist” if not the teacher who reported to the principalwhat the teacher’s opinion was about 9-11. What a perfect fascist he was?What a perfect fascist you are, Mr. Razle Dazle Zionistazle.>> It’s my brief experience on these lists, often predominantly populated> by ultra Right Wing religious cranks, neo-Nazi’s, and Islamo-Fascist> shills, that most of their claims on these conspiracy lists turn out to> be calumnies; and after being investigated, little more than politicised> exaggerations, or complete falsehoods.

The Zionists are the right wing (neo-cons, remember?), the Zionists and theZionist Christians are the religious dangerous — you Razl Dazl are Nazi-like in exactlythe sense Prudy points out. Zionism is racism and Zionists perpetrated 9-11and the Zionist lobby rules the US and the wars that 9-11 provoked are beingfought as wars of genocide against the Arabs — the true Semites — so whois anti-Semite and who is a Nazi, and why don’t you use your real name, Mr.Razl Dazl ZionisTazl???>> Much like your own specious comments above.

No. You Mr. Zionist, took the perfectly sensible statement of Prudy andtwisted his meaning about freedom and how the attack on this teacher isexacly like the Nazi attacks on teachers who did not agree with Hitler —and you out-of-thin-air insisted that Prudy making some other claim —misrepresenting him and trying to throw dirt in the eyes of people trying tosee Prudy’s excellent point.

Razl you can’t stand up to real discussion of 9-11, or the for-profitframe-up wars, or the Zionist lobby or Zionist racism and Israeli andZionist crimes against humanity over the last hundred years.

So what do you have to say for yourself?

>> Razz

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· Iraq PM declares state of emergency in Basra· Latest Iraq Bombing Kills 5 Policemen· Insurgent attacks in Iraq at highest level in 2 years· U.S. military says two Iraqi women shot to death – The statementcame after Iraqi police said a pregnant woman and her cousin werekilled by American troops as they were driving to a maternityhospital in Samarra,· 49 killed in string of attacks in Iraq**ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPON USED TO SLAUGHTER IRAQIS – few weeks afterthe April 2003 battle for the Baghdad Airport, American filmmakerPatrick Dillon learned of a mysterious weapon that had slaughteredmen, women and children, microwave-cooked them in their mini-bus.The Iraqi doctors to whom the horror was rushed had never seenanything like it: no entry wounds, eyes fried, skin burnt offwhere exposed, but unharmed under clothing; decapitations.Dillon’s witness, Majid al Ghezali, first violinist in the cityorchestra, took Dillon to the site of the crime, near the airport.The filmmaker followed the leads, including footage of Rumsfeldand one of his yes-man generals who reveal, Yes, we have suchweapons and will use them (and obviously have used them). Dillon’sdocumentary STAR WARS IN IRAQ, is a must-watch (unless you alreadyknow all about EMP weapons and Donald (Gacy) Rumsfeld)TVNL Comment: Video· Iraq PM impatient with US troops killing civilians

· Will Your Vote Count in 2006? – FINALLY, a legitimatequestion from our MSM, this from Newsweek, about thefraudulent nature and hackability of these DRE votingmachines.· Govt. must reveal some eavesdropping info· “Weapon of Mass Destruction” Targets Sex Shop In Waldo· Justices Set Limits on Public Employees’ Speech Rights

· Of Faustian Bargains and Disposable Human Beings· Noam Chomsky: Why it’s over for America – An inability toprotect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. Alack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the‘failed state’. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly whatthe US is becoming.

· Dahr Jamail – Countless US My Lai Massacres in Iraq – Yetjust like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarelyon the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily,conveniently out of the awareness of the general public.

GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILEFree AmericansReaching Out to Amerika’s Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

Via <prez@usa-exile.org>

May 31, 2006

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Pattern of Behavior of Occupation Forces: US Killing ofCivilians “Fact of Life” in Iraq

May 30, 2006uruknet.net

Global Research Editor’s Note

To camouflage extensive war crimes committed by occupation forces andUS sponsored paramilitaries, Washington is conducting an investigationinto “allegations that US marines carried out a massacre of civilians”in Haditha last November. By focusing on a single event, the mediareports give the impression that the massacre is an exception ratherthan a pattern which responds to command decisions established at thehighest levels of the US military.

BAGHDAD  The killing of two dozen Iraqi civilians in cold-blood by USoccupation forces near the western Iraqi city of Haditha last Novemberis part of a pattern of US behavior in the country, Iraqis havecommented on what would be the worst case of abuse by American soldiersin Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

“The American soldier has become an expert in killing,” Abdel Salam Al-Qubaisy, spokesman for the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS),told Reuters Sunday, May 28.

He said the Haditha incident was only part of a pattern of US behaviorin Iraq.

“This must be considered a war crime and the commanders tried,” headded.

At a barber shop nearby, Ahmed Abdel Rahman could not recall a singleone of his talkative customers mentioning Haditha.

One of them, Salah Mohammed, said such violence was common.

“This sort of thing isn’t unusual,” he said, blaming the prevailinginsecurity on the US occupation.

Haditha residents have described how two families, including youngchildren and women, were shot dead in their homes after a Marine waskilled by a roadside bomb on November 19.

The military initially said the bomb also killed the civilians. Onlythe emergence of a film of the bodies led to an inquiry by Timemagazine that in turn prompted a US probe into the incident.

Unreported

Iraqi media and politicians have paid scant attention to detailsleaking out in Washington as they have got accustomed to such incidentsday in and day out.

“The US forces have committed more crimes against the Iraqi people thanappears in the media,” lawyer Abd Mohammed Falah told Reuters.

Mohammed Jawdaat, 47, like many Iraqis, can recount an incident inwhich he says he saw US forces open fire on civilians.

“Six months ago a car pulled out of a street towards an American convoyand a soldier just opened fire,” Jawdaat said.

“The driver was shot in the head and the person behind was killed too.They were innocents. There were no warning shots and the Americansdidn’t even stop. The police took the wounded.”

Imad Mohammed, a teenager selling newspapers at a Baghdad intersection,said he had not seen Haditha on any front page.

“The Americans see a Muslim go into a mosque and just assume he is aterrorist.

“They either arrest him or blow it up.”

Cover-up

Congressman John Murtha accused Sunday the US military of trying to“cover up” the civilian killings in Iraq at the hands of US forces.

Asked if he believed there had been a cover-up, Murtha, a prominentcritic of the US administration over the Iraq war, told ABC: “Noquestion about it.”

“We don’t know how far it goes. I mean, it goes right up the chain ofcommand, right up to General Pace. When did he know about it?” Murthaquestioned, referring to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff,Marine General Peter Pace.

Pace is the US’ top military officer and a senior advisor to Rumsfeld.

“Who ordered the cover-up? I’m sure he (Pace) didn’t, but what … whosaid, we’re not going to publicize this thing?” Murtha said.

Murtha said the civilian killings have done more damage to America’saims in Iraq than the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

“We’re set back every time something like this happens,” he said. “Thisis worse than Abu Ghraib.”

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· Iraq PM declares state of emergency in Basra· Latest Iraq Bombing Kills 5 Policemen· Insurgent attacks in Iraq at highest level in 2 years· U.S. military says two Iraqi women shot to death – The statementcame after Iraqi police said a pregnant woman and her cousin werekilled by American troops as they were driving to a maternityhospital in Samarra,· 49 killed in string of attacks in Iraq**ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPON USED TO SLAUGHTER IRAQIS – few weeks afterthe April 2003 battle for the Baghdad Airport, American filmmakerPatrick Dillon learned of a mysterious weapon that had slaughteredmen, women and children, microwave-cooked them in their mini-bus.The Iraqi doctors to whom the horror was rushed had never seenanything like it: no entry wounds, eyes fried, skin burnt offwhere exposed, but unharmed under clothing; decapitations.Dillon’s witness, Majid al Ghezali, first violinist in the cityorchestra, took Dillon to the site of the crime, near the airport.The filmmaker followed the leads, including footage of Rumsfeldand one of his yes-man generals who reveal, Yes, we have suchweapons and will use them (and obviously have used them). Dillon’sdocumentary STAR WARS IN IRAQ, is a must-watch (unless you alreadyknow all about EMP weapons and Donald (Gacy) Rumsfeld)TVNL Comment: Video· Iraq PM impatient with US troops killing civilians

· Will Your Vote Count in 2006? – FINALLY, a legitimatequestion from our MSM, this from Newsweek, about thefraudulent nature and hackability of these DRE votingmachines.· Govt. must reveal some eavesdropping info· “Weapon of Mass Destruction” Targets Sex Shop In Waldo· Justices Set Limits on Public Employees’ Speech Rights

· Of Faustian Bargains and Disposable Human Beings· Noam Chomsky: Why it’s over for America – An inability toprotect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. Alack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the‘failed state’. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly whatthe US is becoming.

· Dahr Jamail – Countless US My Lai Massacres in Iraq – Yetjust like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarelyon the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily,conveniently out of the awareness of the general public.

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Azhar Usman, considered by many the world’s leading Muslim stand-upcomic, will perform at the upcoming international 9/11 truth conferencein Chicago, “9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming our Future”:http://911revealingthetruth.org

Usman’s biting wit and absurdist observations on being Muslim inAmerica have won him a growing following on the comedy circuit, as wellas on campuses and in lecture halls. He is one of the few AmericanMuslims who have dared to speak truth to power in the post-9/11era–and somehow he gets away with it, maybe just by being so funny.Not-so-Muslim-friendly publications like the New York Times and eventhe New Republic can’t resist him. The New York Times wrote “He is onstage, killing,” while the New Republic Online added: “In the world of‘Allah Made Me Funny,’ Usman is the show. He’s not just a person inwhom two cultures clash, he’s a wholly new invention: a world-wearycomic, yes, but also a strictly optimistic believer, a politicalactivist and obedient follower, a preacher and rebel all rolled up intoone, swirling the audience’s unspoken fears, expectations, andpreconceptions in a richly entertaining mix.”

What the New York Times and The New Republic won’t tell you, of course,is that Usman is 9/11-truth-hip and thrilled at the chance to performfor the Chicago 9/11 truth conference. Azhar Usman isn’t just funny —though he definitely is that — he’s also a formidable intellect whojuggles his activities as a lawyer, entrepreneur, cultural theorist andcomedian. Smart enough to see through 9/11 and the bogus “war onterror,” brave enough to speak out, and talented enough to keep you institches while speaking out, Usman is becoming an icon of AmericanMuslim identity and a role model for young people. Almostsinglehandedly he is turning the “clash of civilizations” into therimshot of civilizations.

The Chicago-based Usman will cut short a West coast tour and fly homein order to perform at the conference on Sunday evening; probable starttime for his performance is 7 p.m. (Click here for the completeconference schedule.)This last-minute booking made it impossible to properly publicizeAzhar Usman’s appearance. So please help spread the word by forwardingthis announcement.

Col. Robert Bowman, Ph.D., former head of the Star Wars missile defenseprogram, will charge top US officials with 9/11 high treason in anupcoming Chicago speech.

Col. Bowman, who headed the Star Wars program under two U.S.administrations, will make these explosive charges in a speech at theupcoming Chicago conference, “9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming OurFuture” (http://911revealingthetruth.org)

A late addition to the conference schedule, Col. Bowman has animpressive resume and brings enormous credibility to therapidly-growing 9/11 truth movement. It seems that America is now readyfor Col. Bowman’s message, since a recent Zogby poll shows that half ofvoting-age Americans believe the official story of 9/11 is a coverup.

Col. Bowman, a scholar and ordained minister as well as a respectedmilitary figure, is currently running for a Florida seat in the U.S.House of Represenatatives. In a recent interview, he said he isplanning to win his House race, go to Washington, and “take the 9/11truth movement mainstream.”

Col. Bowman, who is running as a Democrat, is one of many 9/11 truthcandidates for local and national offices who will be attending astrategy session at the upcoming Chicago 9/11 truth conference. Othersinclude Craig Hill, Green Party Senate candidate from Vermont; CarolBrouillet, House candidate from Northern California; and Sander Hicks,gubernatorial candidate from New York.

Col. Bowman will be participating in the candidates’ forum Sundayafternoon, and will give the plenary speech concluding the conference.(Click here for the complete conference schedule.)

A Pastor has come forward to blow the whistle on a nationwide FEMAprogram which is training Pastors and other religiousrepresentatives to become secret police enforcers who teach theircongregations to “obey the government” in preparation for adeclaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, andforced relocation.

This program is a nationwide initiative and a literal Soviet modelwhereby the churches are being systematically infiltrated bygovernment volunteers and used as conduits for martial law trainingand conditioning. The Pastor was told that over 13,000 counties werealready on board.

FEMA related to the Pastors that quarantines, martial law and forcedrelocation were a problem for state authorities when enforcingfederal mandates due to the “cowboy mentality” of citizens standingup for their property and second amendment rights as well as farmersdefending their crops and livestock from seizure.

It was stressed that the Pastors needed to preach subservience tothe authorities ahead of time in preparation for the round-ups andto make it clear to the congregation that “this is for their owngood.”

Pastors were asked to make a pledge or an affirmation during themeeting to fulfil the roles ascribed to them by FEMA. They weregiven assurances that they would be covered by full compensation inthe event of resisters injuring them during property seizures andround-ups.

========================Pator Revere(name changed)

“We get the the picture that we’re going to be standing at the endof some farmer’s lane while he’s standing there with his doublebarrel, saying we have to confiscate your cows, your chickens, yourfirearms,” said Pastor Revere.

The Pastor elaborated on how the directives were being smokescreened by an Orwellian alteration of their names.

“They’re not using the term ‘quarantine’ – this is the term they’regoing to be using – it’s called ‘social distancing’ don’t you likethat one,” said the Pastor.

He also highlighted how detention camps had been renamed to givethem a friendly warm veneer.

“Three months ago it was quarantine and relocation centers and nowit’s ‘community centers’ and these are going to be activated at thelocal schools,” he said.

Pastor Revere outlined the plan to carry out mass vaccination andenforced drugging programs in times of crisis such as a bird fluoutbreak.

“In the event of an outbreak or a bio-terrorist attack, there’d be amass vaccination….they have a program nationwide ‘Pills inPeople’s Palm In 48 Hours’,” said the Pastor who was told thatWalmart had been designated as the central outlet of this procedure.

Pastor Revere said that many attendees believed in the necessity ofthe program and were completely unaware to the motivations behindits true purpose and were offered incentives to become volunteerssuch as preferential treatment and first access for themselves andtheir families to vaccines and food shipments in times of emergency.

Which roads to close off after martial law was declared had alsoalready been mapped out.

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Pastor Butch Paugh- May 23, 2006

About three months ago, I was invited to become a part of a groupimplementing federal FEMA/Homeland Security directives in ourcounty. I couldn’t pass that up!

Lots of interesting and bothersome info being discussed at thesemeetings…

Local FEMA’s (‘across the US’ according to a spokesman at our localmeeting) are gathering Ministers (Pastors) to help in the event ofa “declaration of Martial Law or like police action following adeclared emergency or quarantine due to an act of bioterrorism”.The discussion centered around the need of ‘locals’ to “quell thecowboy mentality” of farmers who may have their stock or cropsconfiscated and subsequently destroyed.

FEMA and other Disaster Agencies (NVOAD in particular:http://www.nvoad.org) are training volunteers in a “Peer to Peer” program.That program trains people to assist FEMA in a neighborhood setting–teams reach out to neighbors in a declared emergency and “get theirneighbors to obey authorities”. According to our spokesman,Ministers will be especially helpful because “you guys and gals canuse Romans 13″.

Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat (NY), introduced on 14 February2006 a bill in the US Congress which requires:

“all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of18 and 42 to perform a [two year] period of military service or aperiod of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense andhomeland security, and for other purposes.”

The bill applies to both US citizens and non-citizens, to men andwomen. There does not appear to be a provision which would exempt womenwho are pregnant and/or caring for infants/children in a young age.

While there was some discussion/ debate prior to the formalintroduction of the bill, the matter has not been mentioned by the USmedia since it was introduced in February. Neither has it been theobject of public debate. The bill has been referred to the House ArmedServices Committee. Ironically, in previous discussion leading up thebill, Rangel’s initiative to restore the draft was described as “ananti-war tactic”.

“Rangel opposes war with Iraq and seeks to make the point that manysoldiers are volunteers from low-income and minority families.Political leaders, his reasoning goes, would think twice about sendinginto war the sons and daughters of a more complete cross-section ofAmerica. But whether or not one agrees with Rangel’s rationale, manyAmericans would agree that universal service can be a great leveler anda unifying force in society.”

Despite Rangel’s antiwar resolve, the bill supports Washington’s statedobjective to extend the war into new frontiers and to ultmately send anentire generation of young Americans to fight an illegal, and unjustwar.

The bill also supports Big Brother. Those who are not sent overseas tothe war theater would, according to the clauses of the bill, beinducted into the civilian homeland defense corps and other civilianduties.

While there is at present significant opposition to the bill on bothsides of the House, if the war were to be extended to Iran, thesubstance of this bill could indeed be adopted to meet the manpowerrequirements of the US military.

TIWANAKU, Bolivia (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sundaybluntly accused the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia of trying to stir upmilitaryrebellion against his leftist ally Bolivian President Evo Morales.Advert for the Scotsman.com money channel

Chavez, at the forefront of a leftist shift that is challenging U.S.influence in Latin America, routinely trades insults with Washington,whichhe blames for a short-lived coup that briefly toppled his owngovernment in2002.

“The (U.S.) embassy in Bolivia is already whispering in the ears of theBolivian military to turn them against the government of Evo Morales,”saidChavez, wearing a traditional red poncho and bead necklace, at thesacredpre-Inca ruins of Tiwanaku high in Bolivia’s Andean plateau.

“There’s a plan against Bolivia, and the U.S. ambassador in Bolivia isthehead of this plan,” he said during his weekly Venezuelan televisionshow,broadcast from Tiwanaku in front of an audience of Bolivian indigenousleaders.

No one at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz was immediately available tocomment onChavez’s accusation against Ambassador David Greenlee.

Chavez made similar comments earlier in his visit to Bolivia but did notpoint the finger at Greenlee.

Morales, who sat alongside Chavez in a matching poncho, has also madevagueaccusations of conspiracies against his government since taking officeinJanuary, though he has blamed foreign companies opposed to hisnationalisation drive.

Morales nationalised the impoverished country’s energy industry on May1.Chavez signed deals to invest about $1.5 billion in the naturalgas-dominated sector on Friday, as well as a package of financingaccordsaimed at creating jobs.

WAR OF WORDS

It was the latest salvo in a war of words between Chavez, aself-proclaimedrevolutionary and leader of the world’s No. 5 oil exporter, and thegovernment of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Bush said last week he was concerned about “the erosion of democracy” inVenezuela and Bolivia. The White House has accused Chavez of beinguncooperative in fighting terrorism and of promoting instability in theregion.

“Gringo go home,” Chavez, a former paratrooper, said during Sunday’sbroadcast, which he concluded by dancing to an Andean pan-pipe band.

He said the U.S. government was willing to pay soldiers to turn themagainstthe Morales government.

“The gringos offer lots of money,” he said. “There are soldiers who sellthemselves to the CIA … and they’re paid by Washington.”

Chavez and Morales are close allies and, with Cuban President FidelCastro,have formed a leftist alliance that aims to counter what they call U.S.political and economic hegemony in Latin America.

Morales, elected on pledges to nationalise the country’s energyindustry,often makes anti-U.S. comments in his speeches. But his government hasreiterated its commitment to work with the United States on issues suchasfighting drugs.

Chavez, who is running for re-election in December and seeks greaterregional integration, has used his country’s oil riches to giveneighbourscut-rate energy deals and buy their debt.

(With additional reporting by Lorraine Orlandi in Caracas)

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Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purposeis to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish itsworldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. Youare issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage theinfidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission – both areligious mission and a military mission — to convert or killCatholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates theseparation of church and state – especially moderate, mainstreamChristians. Your mission is “to conduct physical and spiritualwarfare”; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. Youhave never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 yearsold. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators arelinked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best sellingauthor of The Purpose Driven Life.

The game, slated for release by October 2006 in advance of theChristmas shopping rush, has been previewed at video game exhibitions,and reviewed by major newspapers and magazines. But until now, no fanor critic has pointed out the controversial game’s connection to Mr.Warren or his dominionist agenda.

topic: Religious Militarism section:Dominionism in the military

Time magazine has described Mr. Warren as one of the nation’s mostinfluential Evangelical Christian leaders. He describes himself as a“stealth evangelist” and describes his training programs as “a stealthmovement, that’s flying beneath the radar, that’s changing literallyhundreds, even thousands of churches around the world.” He claims thathe has sold tens of millions of copies of The Purpose Driven Life bydeveloping a worldwide network of pastors.

The international director of Mr. Warren’s Purpose Driven Church, MarkCarver, is a former investment banker who serves on the Advisory Boardof the corporation created in October 2001 to develop and market thisgame. The creators plan to market their game using the same networkmarketing techniques that Mr. Warren used to turn The Purpose DrivenLife into a commercial success. For example, they plan to distributetheir merchandise through pastoral networks, especially mega-churches.

This game immerses children in present-day New York City — 500 squareblocks, stretching from Wall Street to Chinatown, Greenwich Village,the United Nations headquarters, and Harlem. The game rewards childrenfor how effectively they role play the killing of those who resistbecoming a born again Christian. The game also offers players theopportunity to switch sides and fight for the army of the AntiChrist,releasing cloven-hoofed demons who feast on conservative Christians andtheir panicked proselytes (who taste a lot like Christian).

Is this paramilitary mission simulator for children anything otherthan prejudice and bigotry using religion as an organizing tool to getpeople in a violent frame of mind? The dialogue includes people saying,“Praise the Lord,” as they blow infidels away.

The designers intend this game to become the first dominionist warriorgame to break through in the popular culture due to its violentscenarios and realistic graphics, lighting, and sound effects. Itscreators expect it to earn a rating of T for Teen. How violent is that?That’s the rating shared by Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – Chaos Theory,a top selling game in which high-tech gadgets and high-powered weapons– frag grenades, shotguns, assault rifles, and submachine guns — areused to terminate enemies with extreme prejudice.

Could such a violent, dominionist Christian video game really breakthrough to the popular culture? Well, it is based on a series of booksthat have already set sales records – the blockbuster Left Behindseries of 14 novels by writer Jerry B. Jenkins and his visionarycollaborator, retired Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye. “We hopeteenagers like the game,” Mr. LaHaye told the Los Angeles Times. “Ourreal goal is to have no one left behind.”

The game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, is based on scenes from thefirst four novels in the series. The game was developed by apublicly-traded company called Left Behind Games, according to SECrecords. The developers obtained the license from Tyndale House, theChristian publisher of Left Behind.

Tyndale also publishes Bringing Up Boys and The Complete Marriage andFamily Home Reference Guide by Focus on the Family founder JamesDobson, PhD. Mr. Dobson has advised parents to monitor the amount oftime children spend playing video games and “avoid the violent onesaltogether.” But he has not yet stated his views on whether thereshould be an exception for video games that role play gunplay in thename of Christ, or of the AntiChrist.

Tyndale’s licensing of the project infuriated one of its authors, JackThompson, a conservative Christian attorney and outspoken critic ofvideo game violence, who told the Los Angeles Times that he severedties with his publisher in a dispute over “Left Behind: EternalForces.”

“It’s absurd,” said the video critic. “You can be the Christiansblowing away the infidels, and if that doesn’t hit your hot button, youcan be the Antichrist blowing away all the Christians.”

The firm’s CEO is relying on network marketing through pastoralnetworks as a key part of his business plan, according to a report inthe March 6, 2006, issue of Newsweek Magazine:Left Behind Games CEO Troy Lyndon, whose company went public inFebruary, says the game’s Christian themes will grab the audience thatdidn’t mind gore in “The Passion of the Christ.” “We’ve thought throughhow the Christian right and the liberal left will slam us,” saysLyndon. “But megachurches are very likely to embrace this game.” Thoughit will be marketed directly to congregations, Forces will also have asecular ad campaign in gaming magazines.As part of its marketing pitch, Left Behind Games hypes the realismwith which it portrays the neighborhoods of New York City. There is,for the most part, a remarkable verisimilitude except for one detail –all of the ambulances have 911 painted on their roofs. In thereality-based world, most ambulances have a red cross on top. Yet thegame designers make prominent use of these 911 ambulances to evoke thetragic events of September 11, 2001. The historical context of 911 isinvoked as if to say, We are living in the End Times, and Muslims areamong the kinds of infidels whom you should fear, whom you should beprepared to kill for your cause.

For game enthusiasts, there is also a multi-player mode, in which youcan go online and battle to take territory from other players. If youhappen to blow away a neutral party – and collateral damage isinevitable in the End of Days – then you will lose “Spirit Points”. Butyou can power back up with merely a brief timeout for prayer, or byconverting one of New York’s terror-stricken citizens.

In this way, the game resembles a send-up of Christian-themed videogames by “The Simpsons.” “Billy Graham’s Bible Blaster,” is afirst-person shooter game in which you fire Bibles at club-carryingheathens to convert them into card-carrying Republicans. (Hint: afteryou finish reading this blog piece – and eating all your vegetables —visit the Simpson’s official web site and open file drawer F-H, thenclick on the character of Evangelical Christian kid Rod Flanders toplay the game.)

Time has dubbed Mr. Warren “America’s minister.” But Mr. Warren saysthat his agenda stretches far beyond America, and far beyondtraditional ministry. He sees himself as the CEO of a global marketingenterprise, and as the Commander in Chief of a stealth army of onebillion Christian foot soldiers.

On the 25th Anniversary of his Saddleback Church on April 17, 2005,Mr. Warren filled the Angels baseball stadium in Anaheim, California,with tens of thousands of his flock. Mr. Warren signaled his beliefthat we are now approaching the End of Days by opening with a rockband, which played the Jimi Hendrix drug anthem Purple Haze. As theband jammed, Mr. Warren sang the lyrics:Purple haze all in my eyesDon’t know if it’s day or nightYou got me blowin’, blowin’ my mindIs it tomorrow, or just the end of time?The Director of the Peace Corps, Gaddi Vasquez, read a message ofsupport from President George W. Bush. Then Mr. Warren called on hisflock to support a $40 million capital campaign to expand missionarytraining facilities at Saddleback’s 120-acre campus in Lake Forest,California. He pledged participants to achieve a purpose-drivenministry overseas. His dominionist theology is apparent in thisministry. A key aspect of dominionist thought is a conviction that theScripture gives the church a mandate to take dominion over this worldsocially and culturally before the return of Jesus Christ. Mr. Warren’sglobal plan is a strategy to realize a dominionist vision of churches,states, and corporations forming partnerships to bring about a newworld order to make way for Christ’s return by establishing a literal,physical kingdom of God on earth. In order to build this earthlykingdom, Mr. Warren plans marketplace ministries – business ventureswith a veneer of missionary compassion that slip into a country inorder to transform it systematically through the governmental,corporate, and social sectors. And that is why Mr. Warren calls himselfa “stealth evangelist” – because he wishes to cloak his dominionistagenda, which is the establishment of an earthly kingdom that reflectshis skewed vision of Christianity.

According to Mr. Warren, the establishment of this earthly kingdomrequires “foot soldiers.” As part of his plan, Mr. Warren said he wouldencourage laypeople to “adopt” needy villages overseas in order toplant churches, expand business opportunities, educate children,influence governments, and overthrow corrupt political leaders, whom hedescribed as “little Saddams.” Mr. Warren said his purpose is to enlist“one billion foot soldiers for the Kingdom of God” in the developingworld. And the stadium crowd roared its approval.

Celebrants included Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, a tiny eastAfrican country that lost hundreds of thousands of people when itsuffered genocide in 1994. Catholic and Protestant clergy have beenconvicted in connection with that genocide. Yet Mr. Kagame announcedthat he would allow Mr. Warren to turn his country into the firstpurpose driven nation. The following month, 16 Rwandan religiousleaders arrived in Orange County to begin religious training atSaddleback Church. Mr. Warren has said that his global initiative wasdeveloped “underground” and in “stealth”. Presumably, this was donewith the assistance of Mr. Carver, who directs the Purpose DrivenChurch in all its activities outside North America.

Yet through an unexpected turn of events in Georgia, the spotlight wasturned on Mr. Warren’s stealthy strategy in March 2005, when AshleySmith read a passage from The Purpose Driven Life to the Atlantacourthouse killing suspect, Brian Nichols. Shortly thereafter, Mr.Nichols freed his hostage and surrendered to police. The entire worldsuddenly wanted to hear from Mr. Warren, who was busy planting theseeds of a Christian theocracy with his “foot soldiers” in Rwanda.

On March 22, 2005, CNN’s Larry King interviewed Mr. Warren about theAtlanta courthouse shooting and hostage taking. A caller asked, “Canyou explain the sudden thirst or craving that people seem to have forreligion?

Mr. Warren replied:“[T]here are really two stories going on in our culture right now.There is the story of things are getting more worse [sic] in some ways.We’re seeing the increase in violence. We’re seeing terrorism. We’veseen these recent shootings. We’re seeing the coarsening of oursociety, that has disgusted a lot of people. And there is people [sic]— some people are more materialistic than ever.

But at the same time, there’s another story going on in America, that Ithink is a spiritual awakening that is brewing. And that is a desireand hunger to know God. I don’t always think it’s always a desire andhunger for church. But there is a desire and hunger to know God.So according to Mr. Warren, the worst of American culture is reflectedin examples of violence, terrorism, shootings, and the coarsening ofour society, that turn people away in disgust. And in addition, “somepeople are more materialistic than ever.”

If violence, coarseness, and materialism are serious social problems,then what purpose is served by exploiting a global pastoral network tomass market a game about mass killing, whether in the name of Christ orthe AntiChrist?

On the one hand, this video game is anti-American, because it endorsesroving death squads engaged in faith-based violence without any regardfor Constitutional law. On the other hand, the video game isanti-Christian, because it argues that the Kingdom of God can beadvanced by using the methods and tools of the kingdoms of this world,namely guns and bombs.

The Scriptures say, “Train up a child in the way he should go: andwhen he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) TheScriptures do not say, “Train up a child in the way he should blow awaythe people of God as well as infidels: and when he is old enough, hewill go out and do some killing.”

As Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were ofthis world, then my servants would fight that I might not be handedover to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here” (GospelAccording to John 18:36). As Paul said, “Though we walk in flesh, wedo not make war in accordance with the flesh, for the weapons of ourwarfare are not fleshly.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-4a).

Citizen’s arest for Treason!! We should make this our cry, and get people to yelling it all over. It could catch on!! It makes our point that the citizens know we are being governed by criminals, and we’re mad as heck, and we are not going to take it any more!!– at least not passively and complacently!! We are trying to get something accomplished!! judy

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In think that 300-500 dollars would be a pretty good start. I actually still owe Jeremy for the last shipment that he sent me. I gotta pay him before I make any more financial committments. Actually, 200 would’nt be a bad start. That would be about 200 or so dvds.

“President, USA Exile Govt.” <prez@usa-exile.org> wrote: How much money would it take to get it going? — pondo

On May 30, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Kevin Hammond wrote:

> I believe so my friend.Â Â It is I believe only a matter of financial> resources.>> “President, USA Exile Govt.”wrote:> Great work, Kevin. I wonder if we’re together enough now to take this> a step farther and get into two-person Truth Teams going door-to-door> with “Loose Change” and several other relevant videos and CDs–not all> of them necessarily on the 9/11 theme. Greenpeace used to do this> extensively (I was one of their canvassers briefly around 15 years> ago)> in a manner which not only spread their word rather effectively but> also provided livelihoods (austere ones, though) for hundreds of> extremely well-intentioned people. — Regards, Pondo>>> On May 28, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Kevin Hammond wrote:>> > Thank you my brother.ÃÂ It is the thought ofÃÂ NOT doing so that> > unnerves me.> >> > DOUGLAS CLARK wrote:> > BOAST…BRAG…AND MAY “GOD” BLESS YOUR EFFORTS!!> >> > Kevin Hammond wrote:> > Awe geee shux!> >> > Jamie Welsh wrote:> > it’s ok boast away kevin! you make me proud.> > -jamie> >> >> > On May 28, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Kevin Lee Hammond wrote:> >> >> > As I was on my way out the door from work fri eve. my boss stopped me> > and asked if I knew where he could get a copy of loose change!ÃÂ> Could> > it be perhaps because I have given a copy to each of my co-workers> and> > made sure that they watched it?!ÃÂ Could it be also, That I have> woken> > up damn near every shop owner and worker on the block where I> work?!ÃÂ> > With copies of not only Loose Change, but also of martial Law and> > other such dvds!.ÃÂ One woman in turn took them to her church and> woke> > up her entire congregation!ÃÂ Please do not take this as boasting> bu t> > as just informing you all of the fact that folks are WAKING UP!> > ÃÂ> > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ Kevin> > ÃÂ http://www.fightthenwo.org> >> >> >> >> > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and> > 30+ countries) for 2ÃÂ¢/min or less.> >> >> > SPONSORED LINKS> >> > United state army> > United state grant> > United state government grant> >> > United state patent> > United state flag> > United state citizenship> >> >> > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS> >> >> >> > Ã¢âÂª ÃÂ Visit your group “911TruthAction” on the web.> > ÃÂ> >> > Ã¢âÂª ÃÂ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:> > ÃÂ 911TruthAction-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> > ÃÂ> >> > Ã¢âÂª ÃÂ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of> > Service.> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Saoirse go deo! http://www.fightthenwo.org> > Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It’s not radically different.> > Just radically better.> >> >> > SPONSORED LINKS> >> > United state grant> > United state patent> > United state flag> >> > Trademark united state> > United state coin> > United state citizenship> >> >> >> >> > PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT MY WEBSITE (911again.tripod.com) TO> OTHER> > GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS.> > ÃÂ> > AS ALWAYS, THE BEST OF HEALTH AND TIMES TO YOU AND YOURS.> > ÃÂ> > DOUGLAS CLARK> > 7320 HERMITAGE ST> > PITTSBURGH PA 15208> > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! MessengerÃ¢â¬â¢s low PC-to-Phone> call> > rates.> >> >> >> > Saoirse go deo! http://www.fightthenwo.org> >> > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and> 30+> > countries) for 2ÃÂ¢/min or less.> >> >> > SPONSORED LINKS> >> > United state military> > United state army> > United state coin> >> > United state government grant> > United state flag> > United state patent> >> >> > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS> >> >> > Ã¢âÂª ÃÂ Visit your group “911TruthAction” on the web.> > ÃÂ> > Ã¢âÂª ÃÂ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:> > ÃÂ 911TruthAction-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> > ÃÂ> > Ã¢âÂª ÃÂ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of> > Service.> >> >> >> >>>>> Saoirse go deo! http://www.fightthenwo.org>> Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just> 2Â¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.>>> SPONSORED LINKS>> United state military> Trademark united state> United state coin>> United state citizenship> United state patent> United state army>>> YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS>>> âª Â Visit your group “911TruthAction” on the web.> Â> âª Â To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:> Â 911TruthAction-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Â> âª Â Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of> Service.>>>>

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Dear All,Kindly see if you love this new ideologicalagendum against one of the most recent fascism in townand as well as read a pile of thoughts thatneccessitated it{it is the most unfortunate novelty inleadership catastrophe;although Nigeria-inspired,itsfeatures and expressions are universal:

Listen, Call, Fax or Send E-Mail to Talk Showshttp://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm==========================================APFNPOGO RADIO YOUR WAY======================================================Please write to your congress men about the new bill aiming atdraftingeveryone from the ages of 18 – 42 into the military.Here are a couple of websites where you can email them now!http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htmhttp://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html“About the draft bill. It has not been passed yet, but it has been‘snuckin’. It is just beyond me, it is so seemingly incredulous.I think it is meant to be a way to force a national ID on most. Ifeveryoneunder 42 is in the military, they’ll have dna, fingerprints, everythingontheir military ID. How much more Federal ID can you get? “————————————————————————————HOW THE INTERNET WORKS: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOWTo see how big carriers could controlthe online world, you must understand its structureTo see how bigcarriers could control the online world, you must understand itsstructurehttp://www.apfn.org/apfn/internet_spying.htm# # #SCOTUSshields corrupt from whistleblowers FREEDOMNEWS, Wed May 31 17:56Chemtrailsin the Movies Joy, Wed May 31 17:44Draftingmen and women 18-42 !!!!!! PresidentBush, Wed May 31 16:18UniversalNational Service Act of 2006 Mr.RANGEL introduced the following bill;, WedMay 31 16:23NoOther Permissible Excuses FPF-fwd.:Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru, WedMay 31 14:52Netcensorship spreads worldwide By MarkWard, Wed May 31 16:09Bilderberg2006 and the Killers of Freedom FPF-fwd.:Tucker + Pepis, Wed May 31 13:30***Covered up Capitol Hill gunfight *** OrlandoMary,Wed May 31 11:20“Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improvethelot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing eachother from a million different centers of energy and daring, thoseripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls ofoppression and resistance.”– Robert F. Kennedy

But here’s what you probably don’t know- L. Paul Bremer’s last gigbefore capitalizing on the Iraq War was at Marsh & McLennan, where“Jerry” was the CEO of Marsh’s Risk Management collective. It’sinteresting that nobody else has noticed that Marsh was at the heart of9-11, and despite being woven into almost every aspect of the events-few question Marsh’s role in any of it.

Secondly, I would note that Stewart AFB, in New Windsor, New York isused as a hub for importation of illicit drugs, using our MilitaryAssets as cover. Coincidently, Stewart happens to be the simultaneouscrossing point of 2 hijacked airliners on 9-11, and also the approximatelocation of where the transponders were switched. Stewart AFB waspreviously known as the base where the Iran Hostages, were returnedafter 444 days and the October Surprise, this predated but is notunrelated to the Iran Contra fraud…

Interestingly, Stewart AFB is the only airport of its kind, in that itwas privatized for secret purposes. This privatization was executed inpart by George Pataki, and Eliot Spitzer. In 1999 Pataki signed a99-year lease (ala Silverstein), and in 2000 Spitzer privatized it for“special” use.

Spitzer, of course, is the attorney general of New York, a supposed reallife crime fighter. I wish that were true, but I ask you to take a lookfor yourself, and judge the evidence:

Spitzer allegedly investigates 9-11: but no real progress is made

Simultaneous to this, Spitzer allegedly investigates the post 9-11 AIG,Marsh Insurance Scheme; wherein hundreds of billions of dollars wereskimmed from fattened insurance quotes- it is my contention that thetechnology my ex-employer provided was fundamental to the perpetrationof this scheme. Spitzer’s investigation finds AIG guilty, yet onlypenalized them $ 1 billion- less than 1% of what they stole, and of that$ 1 billion, Marsh & McLennan had to pay $800,000,000 of it. Comparethat to the recent JP Morgan penalty of $425 million for committing IPOfrauds related to the .bom, I .com boom, which as of 2003 more than 300companies admitted to participating in the fraud… with “no adverseaffects on our financial results” according to a JP Morgan spokesperson.Very interesting…